History
On record since 1994 · Registered with GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC.
Dated facts on record, not a verdict on the site. Full ownership history report on who.is
Website report snapshot
USA TODAY publishes breaking news, investigations, and feature journalism across politics, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. The site serves a broad U.S. audience with daily reporting, opinion, and multimedia content including video, podcasts, and interactive games.
The Authority/Safety methodology, live trust checks, and infrastructure context behind the answer above.
Can I trust this site?
Sourced website trust answerThe live checks and dated facts below help you evaluate this website. If you own it, claiming it free turns this into an owner-controlled record.
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Clean current signals
No live check or safety-model signal has flagged an issue on this snapshot.
Source freshness: 13 days old
No known risk flags
All 4 safety checks passed (Oct 14, 2026).
On record since 1994 · Registered with GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC.
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Current public signals checked for this report.
1 record
The domain resolves through public DNS.
Source: AboutUs public DNS lookup
Reachable
The website responded over HTTPS. Checked HTTPS host: www.usatoday.com.
Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response
www.usatoday.com
HTTPS request for usatoday.com ended at www.usatoday.com. This host is within the profile domain. This records the response destination, not an HTML canonical declaration or a configuration diagnosis.
Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response
USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today
AboutUs could not find a meta description in the first page response.
Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response
3/3 present
Checks for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, and X-Frame-Options headers.
Source: AboutUs live HTTPS response
No breaches on record
Have I Been Pwned has no catalogued breaches for this domain. Absence of a record is not a guarantee that no breach occurred.
Source: Have I Been Pwned
Authority and safety snapshot
This report combines public evidence source, live checks, freshness, and ownership status so readers can evaluate the website without treating the score as a popularity rank.
Report score
89/100
Strong website report
Launch state
Search eligible
Eligible for launch indexing
Owner status
Claimable
No owner has verified domain control for this profile yet. Crawler and archive evidence remain visible, and official facts should be submitted through review.
Search visibility
Indexable public profile
This crawler-backed profile passed the public publication gate.
Report summary
Moderate report issues can be improved with verified owner facts, fresh crawler evidence, or corrected profile details.
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Blacklist / threat feeds
Threat-feed coverage is not attached for this domain yet.
Email authentication
SPF record not found; DMARC record found.
Next step
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Evidence used now
Score source
Shared v2 modelThe report uses the same stored-input model as the profile and directory. Its score, band, reasons and coverage come from that model together.
Safety model
90/100 · ClearCoverage shown; confidence not calibrated; Safety is 90/100 and current band is Clear.
External popularity
Tranco #579 · Open PageRank 4.9/10Popularity evidence is attached as context, not as a guarantee of safety.
Domain age evidence
32.4 yearsRDAP/domain-age context is attached to the safety model from a lookup cached on Sep 18, 2026.
Threat-feed coverage
No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded about 14 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 14 days ago).Coverage follows the displayed model and its current-source checks; unknown inputs are not clean results.
Last authority refresh
Sep 30, 2026Stored authority columns include a refresh timestamp for this profile.
Recommended authority action
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Owner improvement cap
The findings below are holding this score down. Resolving them raises it.
This is not a fraud verdict or PageRank score. It is an AboutUs signal summary based on current report-derived signals, live checks, ownership, freshness, and evidence source.
Authority includes Open PageRank data.
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2 names in the available census closely resemble this domain.
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